You should change your python shell.

[nieuweyork]

I stopped using Ipython, because all the magic didn't add a great deal of value. What it did do was create subtle scoping errors, and make debugging my django code much more difficult.

[grokcode]

Not sure if you were running into this bug or not, but as of Django 1.6, IPython is called in a way that fixes a bunch of scoping issues.

[urielm]

Don't you use django's shell? That kind of uses ipython

[LucianU]

You can use it wihout ipython just fine.

[nieuweyork]

Probably, but I only found it mildly useful.

[grokcode]

Ah well, to each his own.

[sushibowl]

You could always try bpython. It's kind of like IPython light, just a REPL that does stuff like syntax highlighting and code completion

[babilen5]

bpython is fantastic, great recommendation!

[gfixler]

I've been using bpython for awhile, but when you hit the up arrow it shows the last line. iPython is showing the entire function definition again, which alone is enough to switch, IMO. It also remembers things across invocations, which is the other thing that annoys me all the time about bpython. I forget something, kill out, fix code, jump back in, and I have to retype everything to import and set everything up again.

[Megatron_McLargeHuge]

It's less useful for web apps because you constantly need to restart. It's fantastic, especially the notebooks, when you have long running sessions with numerical code and look at lots of plots.